Director Todd Phillips says
actress Heather Graham is like ray of light for him in "The Hangover Part
III".
Graham was seen in the first
edition of "The Hangover" in 2009 as Jade, a Las Vegas based
stripper. However, she was not there in the second edition of the movie, which
released in 2011 but has resumed her role in the third instalment, which opened
here Friday and has got thumbs up from the reviewers.
"Heather has always, for
me, represented a sort of ray of light, like sunshine, particularly in the
bleak landscape that has been these 'Hangover' movies. We had to bring Heather
back because if we're going to Vegas, we have to visit this beacon, which she
is, always. She's just this ray of light. And that was fun," Phillips said
in a statement.
The movie also stars the baby,
who was six-month-old in the 2009 edition, but is a grown up boy now.
"We also brought back her
kid from the first movie - that baby. We got the same actor, who was six months
old then, who's now four-and-half, named Grant. He has the same cheeks as he
had in the first movie...And he has a really big moment in the movie with Zach.
It's so cute," he said.
Set in Las Vegas, "The
Hangover Part III" also stars Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms
and Leslie Chow. (
Source)
